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dreadlocked

dreadlocked adjective: wearing dreadlocks. Also the simple past and past participle of dreadlock.

Adjective

dreadlocked (not comparable)

  1. Wearing dreadlocks.
    • The dreadlocked guitarist played a solo.
    • "Yes! That was awesome!" a dreadlocked game-master cheered, as one girl triumphed in her game of Fantasy Football.2013 November 25, Lydia DePillis, “Microsoft might be beating Google at retail. No, really.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    Synonyms:
    ropeheaded

Also used as

dreadlocked is also the simple past and past participle of dreadlock.

Synonyms of dreadlocked

Origin of dreadlocked

From dreadlock + -ed.

Questions about dreadlocked

What does dreadlocked mean?
Dreadlocked means wearing dreadlocks.
What part of speech is dreadlocked?
Dreadlocked is an adjective.

Words near dreadlocked in the dictionary

  1. dreadingly
  2. dreadless
  3. dreadlessly
  4. dreadlessness
  5. dreadlock
  6. dreadlocked
  7. dreadlocking
  8. dreadlocks
  9. dreadly
  10. dreadmill
  11. dreadmills

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